Traditionally, fishermen controlled the boats by waving an oar back and forth in an arc-like motion. Since basket boats are round, learning how to steer one with a wooden oar requires a unique set ...

One theory posits that in the past, even before the most powerful outboard engines, the steering oars of a boat were commonly positioned on the starboard side since people are more often dominant ...

Each of the Khufu boat's 12 oars was carved from a single piece of wood. Ten oars are lashed amidships ahead of the deckhouse, though this positioning is arbitrary: where, or even whether ...

Justin Jones said in a statement. "Because of highly unfavorable sea conditions, Mr. Mockus's boat could not be recovered except for two oars and some personal items," the Australian Maritime ...

This item is an oar from the 1938 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and was found in a skip in Bletchley, Milton Keynes. In 1938, Oxford won the race so the oar lists all the members of the victor ...